Night Owl Cards

A number of weeks ago I displayed all of my Dodger card trifectas . Those were the players for which I owned the rookie card, an autographed card, and a relic card. It was a lot of fun, and I thank Drew of Drew's Cards for introducing me to the term. I called those trifectas the "new school version," and at the end of the post I said I would show the "old school version" in the next couple of days. Well, it's a month-and-a-half later, and I still haven't gotten around to it. A couple of reasons for that. First, searching for cards and scanning cards may sound like a wild time for non-bloggers, but believe it or not, it can be tedious drudgery. In fact, the one-image post is a beautiful thing and should never be underestimated. Secondly, I had planned to explain that the "old school" trifecta was just as difficult to achieve as the "new school" version, until I discovered that wasn't true at all. A little background: ...

About a year ago or more, I learned of the collecting term "trifecta." I don't know who came up with that, but I first read about it at Drew's Cards . I thought it was a great little collecting category. The best part of tracking down a rookie card, auto card and relic card of a single player is it's a little bit of a challenge. Going through my collection, I found lots of examples of completing two of the three categories. But coming up with all three was more difficult. Finding a rookie card and relic card of Manny Ramirez was easy. Finding an autograph card, not so easy. Same with Shawn Green. Finding a rookie card and an auto card of Sandy Koufax was doable. But I don't know if I've ever seen a relic card of Koufax. Finding an auto card and relic card of Duke Snider was achievable. But it takes big cash to land the rookie card. In the end, I found 15 Dodgers for which I have the rookie card, autograph card and a relic card. That's much m...